Michal Ždanský iMessage is a great messaging solution that bypasses expensive SMS and lets you send messages and photos for free to all iOS users without complications. It would be like saying "a service that just works" if it does. It recently became clear that if the user decides to switch to a phone with a different operating system, as a result of linking the phone number to iMessage, it may happen that the user may not receive messages sent from iPhones at all.
This is because iMessage completely bypasses the classic way of sending messages, and the message travels through Apple's servers instead of the operator's network. Since the service is paired with a phone number, the sender's iPhone still thinks the recipient's phone is an iPhone. One former iPhone owner has already filed a lawsuit against Apple for violating a California law that prohibits unfair competition practices. The plaintiff considers that error in the service as a tool to keep users in the Apple ecosystem.
In addition, the whole situation was worsened by a recent glitch on the server, which made it impossible to correct the situation by the classic ways that the service uses. Apple has confirmed that it is aware of the problem and is working on a solution. It was recently supposed to fix a bug that was causing problems for some users, but the company plans to release more fixes in the near future that should completely resolve iMessage issues. Apple confirmed to Re/code magazine that it is preparing fixes for its service for the next iOS 7 update. The surest way to prevent messages from being lost if you exchange your phone for an Android device or another operating system is to delete user data before selling it Turn off iMessage in settings.
The iMessage service has had more than enough problems, especially in the last year. The most significant was probably the fall outage, when it was not possible to send messages at all, and then several smaller outages followed, when the service was somehow unavailable.
It's the same when roaming without data. SMS doesn't work either
Ever tried it, iMessage is kind of like a random message generator. Sometimes the message comes, sometimes it comes multiple times, and sometimes it doesn't come at all just to be sure. Whether I'm sending between any OS X or iOS devices. I don't know how I could even use something like this.
Interesting. I have never, ever had any problems with iMessage... I have already sent thousands of them... I can always see in advance whether the addressee also has imessage or not, which is also convenient and useful.
I've been using iMsg since the beginning, often dozens of messages a day, no problems yet, not even reported service outages. We have 20 work iPhones at work, no problems either. One who switched to Windows phone is sane enough to turn off iMsgf in the iPhone during the switch, he suspected that this could happen.
I have encountered this - one person who had an iPhone and is no longer there keeps calling me as imesage... but the message eventually leaves via gsm - so I will pay for it...
Personally, I have never experienced this problem, when traveling abroad, the phone automatically sends a message via GSM when iMessage is not available. I'm not crazy about leaving iOS, but even if I did, I'd look into deactivating.
nothing for me either :)
It also works perfectly fine for me and has for several years
For me, sending messages via gsm does not work when the iMessage attempt fails. The message just hangs there until both parties are both online again at the same time. Same with income. I have to deal with it rather unnaturally, that I have important contacts saved twice, once as iMessage when I'm online and as non-iPhone when I'm offline.
That's still babbling. So turn it off, trolls.
That's right, this is apple, she didn't talk about it. Never :-)